Interboro’s Arnot takes silver; O’Hara’s Turner, Kutufaris medal

Ky Arnot picked up a fourth profession medal on the PIAA Class 2A Championships Friday, this one a silver medal within the boys diving occasion at Bucknell University.

The Interboro senior scored 477.90 factors, 12.3 shy of Bishop Shanahan’s Landyn Snook. Arnot had gained gold the final three years, one in every of solely seven athletes to try this in PIAA boys diving competitors. She was trying to develop into simply the third to go 4-for-4.

Arnot entered with the third-highest rating, however she bested District 11 champ Adam Klinger of Pottsville Area by 11 factors. That left simply Arnot and Snook, a junior, however the Shanahan diver was higher on the day.

Snook, in a formidable double, additionally completed tenth within the 50 freestyle, simply exterior the medals.

Arnot’s medal enhances two from Cardinal O’Hara’s Brady Turner and Jason Kutufaris.

Turner was fifth in prelims of the boys 200 particular person medley, then sixth within the closing in 1:56.30. He was barely faster in prelims at 1:56.11. That latter is a finest time, bettering his finest by two seconds from the District 12 Championships final month.

Kutufaris entered because the twelfth seed within the 200 freestyle. He was eighth within the morning at 1:44.66, then dropped a finest time of 1:43.85 at evening to bump up a spot to seventh. It drops six tenths off his finest time from final week at a YMCA district meet for the Bloomsburg commit.

Cardinal O’Hara received a second swim within the 200 free relay and made probably the most of it. After squeaking into the ultimate in sixteenth place within the morning by lower than two tenths of a second, the Lions sped up by greater than 1.5 seconds to tenth in 1:29.67, a time that additionally beat one of many A finalists. Luca Merkle, Colten Turner, Hunter Zimmerman (in 22.12) and Kutufaris (in a blistering 21.21) comprised the quartet.

The Lions’ 200 medley relay was twenty fourth. Merkle completed twentieth within the 100 butterfly, Zimmerman thirty second within the 50 free.